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 and it must have looked funny to Willie. We rolled down the hill, over and over, out on to the ice of the pond. My, but we were scared! The ice was kind of breaking up. Willie tried to save us, but broke through, and if he hadn't come up just at the right time he would have been drowned.

"His father came back just in time to save us all. I tell you I never forgot that. I thought of it, together with a great many other things, when I was swingin' from that housetop.

"I remember, too, when my mother learned to play the Dead March on the melodeon.

"She was a clipper at that melodeon, played by ear. Whenever she heard the band play a tune, she would scoot home tight as she could